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Chip Butty

@adamgreenfield that's because diligence and precision is for boffins, and no one here wants to be a boffin, and no one here wants to listen to them (I remember being really struck by that when radio 4 was interviewing my co founder - the interview started as a business one until they found out she studied maths at uni and then it weirdly switched to a boffin interview. It was so weird)

26 March at 19:08 | Wall-to-wall | Open on functional.cafe
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Adam Greenfield

@otfrom What would the difference be, in terms of kinds of questions asked or attitude taken by the interviewer?

26 March at 19:55 | Open on social.coop
Chip Butty

@adamgreenfield it was a while ago so mostly I remember impressions, but, for business (which is also a bit dirty, having to actually get filthy lucre) it was a bit hard nosed but the interviewer expected to understand the answers. The boffin side ended quite quickly and the interviewer gave the impression that they didn't expect that they would understand the answers.

This is a country where people think the thesis of The Two Cultures holds (regardless of what one might think of the thesis people here believe and and think it is an uncrossable gulf)

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tw

@adamgreenfield it was a while ago so mostly I remember impressions, but, for business (which is also a bit dirty, having to actually get filthy lucre) it was a bit hard nosed but the interviewer expected to understand the answers. The boffin side ended quite quickly and the interviewer gave the impression that they didn't expect that they would understand the answers.

26 March at 21:03 | Open on functional.cafe
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